From Latin America to North Africa and the Middle East, governments experience backlash against IMF loan programmes and policy recommendations.

From Latin America to North Africa and the Middle East, governments experience backlash against IMF loan programmes and policy recommendations.
IMF programme raises questions over unconstitutional attack on workers' rights.
Fears of further clampdown on protesters emerge as Zimbabwe implements Fund-backed economic reforms.
As Fund publishes its first comprehensive review of conditionality since the financial crisis, questions arise about the Fund's capacity to create economic stability and the rise of structural conditions.
Fund publishes social spending strategy, civil society deems outcome too little too late.
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 10 April on the incoherence between IMF-backed austerity policies, via loan conditionality and policy advice, and the realization of the right to health.
General Secretary of Tunisia's largest trade union calls for an overhaul of the IMF's approach to bring about socially just expansionary policies, after strikes overturn IMF-backed wage bill
As Jordan is engulfed in social unrest and political upheaval, questions are raised around the relationship between IMF conditionality and trends in instability.
UN Special Rapporteur publishes report on IMF and social protection, calls on Fund to practice what it preaches.
As Argentina agrees to a $50 billion IMF loan, the ghost of loans past lingers, as protests erupt and strikes begin.